The impact of GB- PFLAG’s Safe Schools & Communities Project can best be described by comments from participants in our trainings:

"Excellent workshop! Those who attended are still talking about it and how 'simple' it is to do something to eradicate the negative comments and feelings surrounding gay youth! We want you back in the fall for an in-service workshop that lasts for an entire morning!" HS Teacher

"This school desperately needed a session like this one." Western MA HS teacher "What I learned today made me think. I had heard people tell me this stuff before, but today it touched me more…. I feel that I’ll use what I learned today. I’ll remember it. I’ll change some of the things I do." HS Student, Peer Leaders Conference

"I was unaware how seemingly subtle, undirected comments can radically affect someone’s life." HS Student

"I feel like I said some bad stuff and I didn’t care what anyone else’s feelings were. I will not say any bad words to gays and homosexuals." 7th grader

"I will encourage the start of a GSA group at school and work on teacher training/awareness." Principal

"Our rabbi is mostly supportive, but she won't perform our marriage ceremony. Do we need to find another synagogue?"

We’ve given faculty and students the tools and language to address anti-gay name-calling and bullying, and the motivation to implement them immediately.

Greater Boston PFLAG delivered 171 educational programs, reaching over 9,500 people from July 2005 to July 2006.

• 101 High School engagements
• 13 HS Faculty trainings
• 1 Middle School
• 1 Elementary School Faculty Training
• 18 College engagements
• 7 Religious
• 3 Corporate
• 4 Community Events
• 6 Community Organizations
• 12 Conferences
• 5 GLBT Youth Leadership Conferences

We’ve found that people are eager to have the knowledge and tools they can use to end anti-gay name-calling and harassment, and create safe, supportive learning environments for all students.

Greater Boston PFLAG Safe Schools & Communities Project Speaking Engagements, July 2005 to July 2006

• Urban College of Boston • Wellesley College • First Parish Church, Waltham • Principal’s Conference, Cape Cod • Superintendent’s Conference,Cape Cod • Brandeis University • Holliston HS • School Nurses Conference, Worcester • Western New England College • Wakefield HS • Boston College • Lincoln Sudbury HS • Harvard University • Northeastern University • Arlington HS • Simmons College •North Middlesex Regional HS • Hamilton-Wenham HS •Love Won Out Conference, Boston • COHES Conference, Worcester • A View From All Sides Conference, Worcester • Stonehill College • Hudson HS • Xaverian Brothers HS • Mass PTA Conference, Sturbridge • Boston University • Grafton HS • Newton North HS • Cambridge Rindge Latin HS • Stoneham HS •First Parish Church, Harvard • Danvers HS • First Parish Church, Bedford

• Follen Church • First Parish Church, Concord • Concord-Carlisle HS • Lesley College •Cambridge Family & Children’s Services •GLBT Youth Conference, Springfield • Marblehead HS • Codman Academy • Peace Conference, Franklin HS • Medway High School • MAHPERD Conference • Scituate HS • Northeast Regional Vocational/Technical HS • GLBT Youth Conference, Woburn •Masconomet HS • GLBT Youth Conference, Hyannis • GLBT Youth Conference, Bridgewater • GLBT Youth Conference, Worcester • Needham HS • Taunton HS • Blackstone Valley Vocational/Technical HS • Whitman-Hanson HS • Natick High School • GLEE Expo, Boston • Community Coalition for Teens Conference, Greenfield

• Leominster HS • Littleton HS • Grafton HS • East Bridgewater HS • Gardner HS • Lunenberg HS • Bellingham HS • Mass Suicide Prevention Conference, Worcester • Blue Hills Regional Vocational/Technical HS • GLSEN Conference • Sturgis Charter School • Nashoba Valley Regional HS • Youth Pride • Winchester HS • Ayer HS • Swampscott HS • UMASS Memorial Hospital • First Parish Church, Scituate •Gateway Regional HS • The Center Club • Raytheon Corporation • Massachusetts Turnpike Authority • Wheelock College • G.Stanley Hall School • Curley MS, Jamaica Plain • Marshall Elementary School, Dorchester • New England Institute of Art • Berkshire Community College • MA College of Liberal Arts • Berkshire Community College